The Joke Was On Me: A Comedian's Memoir

234 pp. Barry Friedman, a veteran of 30 years on the comedy road, delivers another punchline on standup. Filled with garden-variety kleptomaniacs, large, rum-drinking Bahamians, bitter, glorious, troubled, and sex-addicted women with ankle monitors, loquacious drug addicts, first-time Vegas lesbians, and tall, neurotic Jews in sweaters - and these are the sane people - The Joke Was On Me, is the story, his story, of laughs and love and almost fame. It's all true - as much as comedy will allow anyway.